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What does being 'technical' mean?

opensource.com - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:00

The word "technical" describes many subjects and disciplines: technical knock-out, technical foul, technical courses for rock-climbing competitions, and technical scores for figure skating in sports. The popular cooking show The Great British Bake-Off includes a technical baking challenge. Anybody who has participated in the theatre may be familiar with technical week, the week before the opening night of play or musical.


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Zink With Mesa 21.1 Now Advertises OpenGL 4.6

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 15:49
Mike Blumenkrantz continues to be on a mad roll when it comes to getting all of the Zink patches upstreamed into mainline Mesa... This Gallium3D-based OpenGL over Vulkan translation layer now has OpenGL 4.6 turned on for Mesa 21.1!..

OProfile Kernel Code Slated For Removal In Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 13:30
OProfile as a system profiler for Linux systems was started twenty years ago during the Linux 2.4 kernel days. While the user-space components are still going strong, the kernel-side support is redundant in an era of the perf subsystem and thus slated for removal with Linux 5.12...

How to Fix NTFS Partition Failed to Mount Error in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 13:09
The post How to Fix NTFS Partition Failed to Mount Error in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will show how to fix NTFS failed to mount errors such as “Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdax’: Input/output error, NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it’s

The post How to Fix NTFS Partition Failed to Mount Error in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The x86 Platform Drivers For Linux 5.12 Have Several Prominent Additions

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 09:23
The "platform-drivers-x86" area of the kernel that is primarily made up of driver support around Intel/AMD laptops and other platform drivers is seeing a number of noteworthy additions for the newly-opened Linux 5.12 merge window...

Monado 21.0 Released As An Officially Conformant OpenXR Implementation

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 03:48
Monado, the leading open-source project implementing The Khronos Group's OpenXR specification for AR/VR devices, is now officially considered a conformant implementation and is marked by its v21.0 release...

KVM With Linux 5.12 Allows For Userspace To Emulate Xen Hypercalls, AMD Optimization Too

Phoronix - Tue, 02/16/2021 - 02:04
Even before the Linux 5.11 kernel was released on Sunday, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) maintainer Paolo Bonzini already had submitted early the initial batch of virtualization changes for Linux 5.12. There are some interesting changes on the KVM front for Linux 5.12...

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